Garment-stay.



D. .SGHULER.

GARMENT STAY.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. e, 1910.

1,074,214, Patented Sept. 30, 1913.

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DAVID SCHULER, OF KERRTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE SPIRELLA COM- PANY, 0F MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT-STAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 9, 1910. Serial No. 581,156.

To all whom it may concern:

Garment-Stays, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to stays for garments and the like, and more particularly to wire stays for corsets.

The object of the invention is to provide a stay for this purpose which will readily yield edgewise as well as sidewise, which is perfectly elastic, and in which the bending can not be concentrated at any point or points,thereby avoiding short bends, with the consequent crystallization and breakage.

The invention comprises a stay constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is an enlarged face view of one form of stay embodying the invention; and Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 2-2, Fig. 1.

The wire is bent alternately back ant forth to form the oppositely disposed loops 2, arranged alternately progressively along the stay and extending laterally across the width thereof and preferably having rounded outer or closed ends forming the edges of the stay. All of the loops lie in the same plane. The crossings 4, instead of extending straight across from edge to edge are deflected out of the straight line in the plane of the stay, giving the stay crossings as a whole a general angular appearance in plan view, with a bend 5 substantially at the median longitudinal line of the stay, the portions of the crossings on opposite sides of said median line being inclined in oppo site directions. These crossings may furthermore be more or less wavy or sinuous, as indicated at 6. This produces a row of wave-like port-ions all curved in one direction along the center or median line of the stay and two rows of other wave-like portions, all curved in the opposite direction along the side edges of the stay. This sinuous or wavy form disposes of a greater length of wire in a given length of stay, and therefore makes the stay more flexible and less liable to breakage or permanent distortion or set than if the crossings were straight.

By having the crossings deflected in the plane of the stay as described, the wire is so disposed that in the flatwise bending these crossings take care of the bending stresses by a torsion or twisting and also by transverse bending. As a consequence, the stay is stiffer against stresses tending to bend the same flatwise than it would be if the crossings extended straight across from side to side, in which latter event such crossings would act purely by torsional twist when the stay is bent flatwise. At the same time the long length of wire in a. given length of stay makes it very flexible against edgewise bending and prevents it from buckling or twisting when bent edgewise.

To further stiffen the stay, and also to render the same stiffer when bent in one flat-wise direction than when bent in the other, the crossings 4 are also deflected out of the plane of the stay, so as to give to the stay as a whole a concavo-convex form in cross section and a general grooved or corrugated appearance longitudinally, as shown in Fig. 2. This not only protects the stay as a Whole against flatwise bending stresses, but makes it stiffer against stresses tending to bend it toward the convex side than against stresses tending to bend it in the opposite direction, and particularly adapts the structure as a garment stay where the stresses are almost exclusively in one direction.

The stay is practically flat and of comparatively light weight. It contains such a long length of wire thatshort bending, or concentration of bending stresses at any point is practically avoided, and as a consequence it is practically unbreakable.

What I claim is:

A garment stay formed of wire bent back and forth across the entire width of the stay in alternately progressive loops, the connect- Patented Sept. 30, 1913.

ing crossings being bent in the plane of the In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 7 stay into Wavy 0r undulating form to promy hand. duce a row of Wave like portions all curved in one direction along the center line of the DAVID SGHULER' stay and rows of other wave like portions lVitnesses:

curved in the opposite direction along each J. H. PARDEE, side edge of the stay. 7 M. M. BEEMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

